Utopia in the Age of Globalization: Space, Representation, and the World-System

by Robert T. Tally Jr. and Kenneth A. Loparo

Although normally associated with modernity or modernism, utopia has made a comeback in the age of globalization. Just as the discoveries of the New World and the social upheavals of early modern Europe inspired Thomas More's Utopia and its many descendants, the bewildering technological shifts and economic uncertainties of the present era call for new approaches. The explosion of utopian studies since the 1960s, particularly in the work of such theorists...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230391893
• ISBN13: 9780230391895
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
• Length: 111 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"